Element 25 Limited (ASX:E25) is pleased to announce a collaborative partnership with Circulor Ltd to establish full manganese traceability and dynamic tracking of CO2, environmental, social and governance (ESG) standards for products produced from the 100% owned Butcherbird Project in Western Australia.
The tracking and tracing will include the current manganese concentrate products, as well as the planned production of high-purity manganese sulphate (HPMSM) battery materials that will be manufactured through the downstream processing of Butcherbird manganese concentrate.
Globally, there is increasing awareness about the impacts associated with extractive industries, including the supply of raw materials that are key to meeting growing demand for critical minerals in Lithium-ion batteries industry and electric vehicles.
End users are increasingly requiring greater traceability and precise carbon accounting for their supply chain inputs. E25’s partnership with Circulor plays a critical role in the company demonstrating traceability and ESG compliance for its manganese products.
E25 Managing Director, Justin Brown, said the collaboration between Circulor and Element 25 is a fantastic example of the way the minerals industry is evolving to provide better traceability and accountability as it works tirelessly to provide the new energy sector with sustainable raw materials to power the global energy transition away from fossil fuels.
“It reinforces E25’s commitment to forging a pathway to Zero Carbon Manganese production from the Butcherbird Project.”
Mr Brown said E25’s Operations team continues to focus on delivering sustained nameplate production, anticipated by Q1 2022. The Business Development team is focussing on E25’s multi-stage development strategy, including a Stage 2 expansion of the concentrate business followed by a Stage 3 development to convert the concentrate material into HPMSM for electric vehicle EV batteries to power the global transition away from fossil fuel powered mobility.
Manganese is emerging as an increasingly important ingredient for EV batteries, with potential supply constraints for nickel and cobalt forcing battery manufacturers to look to high manganese cathodes to produce the vast amount of cathode material required by the EV industry in coming years.
He said the Project is ideally placed to feed this potential demand, with advanced flowsheet development work undertaken in 2019 and 2020 confirming a simple leach process for E25 ores which, when combined with offsets, will target the world’s first Zero Carbon Manganese for EV cathode manufacture.
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